Harshan Lamabadusuriya is a Sri Lankan born British Scrabble player and paediatrician who began playing Scrabble as a child in Sri Lanka before moving to the United Kingdom in 1996. He won the UK National Scrabble Championship in 2003 and the UK Open Scrabble Championship in January 2025, and he was runner up at the World Scrabble Championship in both 2017 and 2023. He also holds the record for the highest single word score in competitive Scrabble, 329 points for the word Kreuzers, and has represented the United Kingdom at multiple World Scrabble Championships.
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Harshan Lamabadusuriya is a Sri Lankan born British Scrabble player and paediatrician who began playing Scrabble as a child in Sri Lanka before moving to the United Kingdom in 1996.
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